A family in rural Oklahoma alleged that their home furnace was negligently maintained by an HVAC service company, resulting in carbon monoxide levels more than 1,000 times greater than is considered

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“Really good lawyers, particularly for insurance and tort litigation defense.”  We could not be more proud.

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America’s leading manufacturer of agricultural machinery proactively resolved through settlement a dispute with a customer. The customer had alleged that the manufacturer’s farming equipment was defective and imperiled his business. 

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Oklahoma enacted a law in 2011 designed to incentivize drivers to purchase and maintain liability insurance.  The statute provides “in any civil action to recover damages arising out of an

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Our defendant caused a car wreck after crossing the centerline. A guilty plea to DUI and thirty days jail resulted for the driver; the other driver alleged an array of soft

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John Tucker presented  at the Leadership Academy of the Oklahoma Bar Association on January 9, 2014. John spoke to the group about challenges facing Oklahoma’s process for selecting and maintaining

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A property owner was unaware of lien on land that she bought, leading to a foreclosure several years later. Feeling that this must have been the fault of someone else,

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Partner John Tucker, an elected member of Oklahoma’s Judicial Nominating Commission, defended Oklahoma’s judicial selection process against attacks from proponents of “reform” at a Federalist Society-sponsored event at Tulsa’s Mayo

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A title company was retained to provide a title opinion to a potential purchaser of a residential property. The title opinion noted that the City of Tulsa held an easement

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A national franchisor and several named managers and employees faced an array of discrimination allegations in federal court, including age, disability, race and retaliation. Partner Jo Anne Deaton and associate

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In what historians may refer to as the “Lazarus session,” Governor Mary Fallin called the Oklahoma legislature into special session to develop and pass legislation designed to reinstate the wide-ranging

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An employee of a high-tech firm alleged that he suffered from a disability and consequently was terminated in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. In the course of exhausting

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In a matter of first impression, a division of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals held that claims against insurance companies for bad faith cannot be assigned unless first reduced

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In a dramatic setback for proponents of tort reform, the Oklahoma Supreme Court invalidated the entirety of the Oklahoma Legislature’s keystone achievement of 2009: the Comprehensive Lawsuit Reform Act of

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The firm was called in to defend an insurer in a personal  injury lawsuit. A woman sought damages for past and future injury, disability, pain and suffering and punitive damages.

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Oklahoma Supreme Court finds federal laws and regulations establish the standard of care in negligence per se claims; violation of federal law or regulation thus satisfies the “duty” and “breach”

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An assembly worker at a manufacturing plant was terminated after he was absent for two days from work without calling in. He had been injured at work one week earlier,

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A tenant of an apartment building brought suit against the owner of the apartment building for property damage after the tenant’s apartment caught fire. The tenant alleged that the owner

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Our client’s employee was driving from out-of-state to an Oklahoma town, to begin a new job.   Although the employee had not begun work yet, the job awaited him.  His

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A commercial tenant alleged that a high-value theft from the tenant’s offices was successful because the property manager stymied an investigation that would have led to recovery of the lost

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